Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.
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Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.
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The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
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The LORD will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until He have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest in to possess it.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 28:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 26:25 I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- Jeremiah 24:10 I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’ ”
- Numbers 14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
- Jeremiah 15:2 It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.” ’
- Jeremiah 16:4 “They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”
- Numbers 25:9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
- 2 Samuel 24:15 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.
- Jeremiah 21:6-7 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal. They will die of a great pestilence. Afterward,” says Yahweh, “I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, even those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. He will strike them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them, have pity, or have mercy.” ’
- Exodus 5:3 They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”
- Numbers 16:46-49 Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.” Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. The plague had already begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, in addition to those who died about the matter of Korah.
- Matthew 26:7 a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 28:21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave…
Deu 28:21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
Ver. 21. The Lord shall make the pestilence.] Which Hippocrates calls Tο θειον, as the falling sickness is called Morbus sacer, as more immediately sent of God.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The Lord shall make the rain of thy land…
The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust,.... That is, instead of showers of rain in their season, to water, refresh, and enrich the earth, and make it fruitful; and for want of them, and through the heat of the sun, being dried and parched, and its clods crumbled into dust, this should be raised up into the air by the force of winds, and let down again in showers of dust; whereby the few herbs, plants, or green trees on it would be utterly destroyed: and so the Targum of Jonathan interprets it of the Lord's sending a wind that should raise the dust and earth upon the herbs of their fields. Such ploughing winds, that cast up the earth and sand, and dust, into the air, whereby men and cattle are sometimes covered, are frequent in the eastern countries; of which See Gill on Jon 4:8,
from heaven shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed; that is, from the air, up to which the dust is carried by the wind, and then let fall in vast quantities, like showers, which are very destructive.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 21. The pestilence cleave unto thee] ידבק יהוה…
Verse 21. The pestilence cleave unto thee] ידבק יהוה בך אה הדבר yadbek Yehovah becha eth haddaber, the Lord shall CEMENT the pestilence or plague to thee. Sept., Προσκολλησει Κυριος εις σε τον θανατον, The Lord will GLUE - inseparably attach, the death unto thee. How dreadful a plague it must be that ravages without intermission, any person may conceive who has ever heard the name.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 28:21-24. Shall make the pestilence cleave to thee…
Deu 28:21-24. Shall make the pestilence cleave to thee — Sometimes Divine Providence shall scourge you by one calamity, and sometimes by another, and they will cut off your people in great numbers. Thy heaven shall be brass — Dry, and shut up from giving rain or dew. The earth iron — Exceeding hard through drought, and barren. The rain of thy land powder and dust — As unprofitable to thy ground or seed as if it were only so much dust. Or rather, by reason of long droughts, dust blown up into the air by winds shall fall in showers instead of rain.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain pestilence--some fatal epidemic. There is no reason, however, to…
pestilence--some fatal epidemic. There is no reason, however, to think that the plague, which is the great modern scourge of the East, is referred to.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. pestilence] Heb. deber, a general word (originally =…
21. pestilence] Heb. deber, a general word (originally = death); in J, Exo_5:3; Exo_9:15, Hos_13:14, Amo_4:10. See Baldensperger, PEFQ, 1906, 97 ff. LXX here θάνατος.
whither thou goest in to possess it] The usual phrase in the Sg. passages; see on Deu_6:1. For the corresponding Pl. phrase see Deu_4:26.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (21) The pestilence.—One of God’s four sore judgments to…
(21) The pestilence.—One of God’s four sore judgments to be sent upon Jerusalem (Eze_14:19-21).
Until he have consumed thee from off the land.—From Deu_28:21-35, inclusive, we seem to be reading of the gradual consumption of Israel “in the land of promise” before any actual captivity.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 21, 22. The afflictive visitations here named are…
Vers. 21, 22. The afflictive visitations here named are such as destroy life; but the distinctive character of each it is not easy exactly to define. The pestilence is probably a generic term for any fatal epidemic. In the LXX it is usually represented by the general word Odoacer, death. Consumption; literally, wasting; the designation of any species of tabes or marasmus. Fever (tqLD from qlD; to be parched, to glow); inflammation (rtujj, from rrj to burn); burning fever (tjDq from jdq to kindle): different species of pyrexia, the distinction between which has not been determined. The sword. Instead of brj sword, the Vulgate, Arabic, and Samaritan adopt the reading brjo heat, drought; (Gen_31:40) but all the other versions support the reading of the received text, and there is no reason why it should be departed from, more especially as drought is threatened in the verse that follows. Blasting and with mildew; diseases that attack the grain; (Amo_4:9) the former (wOpDvi from pDv to scorch, to blast) a withering or scorching of the ears caused by the east wind; (Gen_41:23) the latter (wOqrye, from qry to be yellowish) the effect produced by a hot wind, which turns the ears yellow, so that they are rendered unproductive.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 28:21 The diseases that afflict (or cling to) Israel…
28:21 The diseases that afflict (or cling to) Israel would be chronic, not releasing their hold until the nation had succumbed.
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